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BETTER FRUIT 



Increasing the Value of the Farm 



by Bringing it Miles 



The value of a farm depends largely 

 upon its distance from a good market 



Today distance is measured in min- 

 utes, not in miles. 



The Patriot Farm Truck (Lincoln 

 Model, iy2 tons capacity) readily 

 transports much more in weight with 



Nearer the Market 



several times the speed of a horse- 

 drawn wagon. It lays down at 

 market 15,000 to 20,000 pounds in 

 practically the same time that a 

 team will deliver 5,000 pounds, lit- 

 erally bringing the farm to about 

 one-fourth its actual distance from 

 market. 



PATRIOTfarm TRUCK 



Built for Country Roads — Built for Country Loads 



The Patriot is the first motor truck built for farm work, and is equipped with 

 a practical farm body, similar to what you have always used on your farm wagon. 

 It saves horses and high-priced feed. It brings better markets nearer, for with a Patriot 

 you can readily drive loads to a market fifty or one hundred miles distant. 

 Business farmers can easily see how such perfect transportation greatly increases the value 

 of their farms, to say nothing of the convenience in being master of roads and weather. 

 Every farmer with 160 acres or more should find out what a Patriot Farm Truck will 

 save. Write for information. 



HEBB MOTORS COMPANY 



Manufacturers of Patriot Farm Trucks 

 1337 P Street Lincoln, Nebraska 



Lincoln Model 

 Washington 

 21 , Ton 



Continental 

 Motor 



Internal 

 Gear and 

 Worm 

 Drive 



The Powerful Patriot 

 Hand Hoist 



by which the body. 



when loaded, may 



easily and quickly be 



elevated to 



dump its 



load. 



large branches by the load and scatter- 

 ing them far and wide among the Bings. 

 These will last several hours — usually 

 as long as the bees are working for one 

 day; for several successive mornings 

 the work was repeated and the same 

 ground covered. One man by this 



larger method can get many times the 

 results of the smaller ways, provided 

 there is a large work to do. With a 

 few trees, the bucket method would be 

 best. But of course any artificial means 

 is to be used only till the pollenizers 

 can be grown. 



The Underground Stems of Quack -Grass 



THE underground stems are the seat 

 of the remarkable vitality of quack- 

 grass; therefore, for a full understand- 

 ing of this subject the plant in its rela- 

 tions to the underground stems will 

 first be briefly considered. These 

 stems are often called roots. They are 

 not roots in the true sense of the word, 

 but rootstocks, that is, underground 

 stems. The distinction between root- 

 stocks and roots is that rootstocks have 

 buds on them as stems do, while roots 

 do not. Another very important dis- 

 tinction is that rootstocks do not absorb 



material from the ground, while roots 

 do. The rootstocks are dependent for 

 their growth upon the material ab- 

 sorbed by the roots and elaborated in 

 the leaves in combination with the 

 material which the leaves draw from 

 the air. This material elaborated in 

 the leaves then goes down to form the 

 underground stems, or rootstocks. The 

 plant is simply storing up material to 

 draw on next year. 



As the material for the growth of 

 rootstocks comes from the leaves, the 

 amount of leaf growth which the plant 



July 



produces in any one season is largely 

 a measure of the amount of rootstock 

 growth. So, by limiting the develop- 

 ment of top in any way the number of 

 underground stems produced is thereby 

 limited. If little or no top is allowed 

 to grow very little rootstock will be 

 developed. Just as we would expect a 

 small crop of potatoes if we were to 

 keep the top of the potato plant cut 

 back close to the earth, so should we 

 expect a ininiinuni of rootstock .growth 

 to be produced by the (|uack-grass 

 plant if its top is kept closely cut. By 

 actual observations, this is found to 

 be true. 



The depeest and most vigorous root- 

 stock development of quack-grass is 

 found in cultivated fields. There are 

 several factors which cause this. The 

 principal one is probably deep prepa- 

 ration of the land. When the plant is 

 left undisturbed the rootstocks have a 

 tendency to get nearer the surface 

 every year. Deep plowing puts the 

 stem back to the bottom of the furrow, 

 and a mass of tangled growth is then 

 sent out toward the surface, a large part 

 of the vitality of the buried stems going 

 into new stems reaching toward the 

 surface. This new growth lives until 

 the next year. When the stems are 

 buried deeply to begin with and culti- 

 vation is not kept up long enough to 

 kill out the grass (and it usually is not 

 on this type of lan<l), the plant takes on 

 a new lease of life after cultivation 

 stops, the loose deep soil furnishing an 

 ideal place in which to grow. As a 

 consequence, the plant becomes firmly 

 established and is well able to stand the 

 next year's battle. 



In midsummer, immediately after 

 haying, there is usually a period of 

 more or less relaxation from general 

 farm work. This is a season of the 

 year also when rootstock grasses seem 

 to be at their lowest state of vitality. 

 The hay crop, too, has been secured 

 from the sod land and nothing more is 

 to be produced the current season on 

 these lands; therefore, no crop is lost. 

 If the work is begun on pasture lands, 

 at least a half season of pasturage has 

 been obtained. It is only on sod and 

 pasture lands that it seems to be ad- 

 visable to attempt to destroy quack- 

 grass by the method here outlined, as 

 was pointed out in the discussion of the 

 rootstock habits of the grass under 

 varying field conditions. 



The process of killing quack-grass on 

 sod or pasture lands, beginning in mid- 

 summer, is a very simple one. 



The first step is to plow the sod, cut- 

 ting just under the turf, which is usu- 

 ally about three inches deep. To thor- 

 oughly turn over a stiff quack-grass sod 

 as shallow as three inches it is advisable 

 to use a special type of plow (Scotch 

 bottom) having a very long, gradually- 

 sloping moldboard. It has been found 

 that with this type of plow the sod can 

 be turned very shallow. The next step 

 is to go in a week or ten days later with 

 a disk harrow and thoroughly disk the 

 sod. Repeat this treatment every ten 

 days or two weeks until fall, when the 

 quack-grass will be completely killed 

 out. 



